"Hablot Knight Browne Hablot Knight Browne (10 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well-known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Of Huguenot ancestry, Hablot Knight Browne was born in England, in Lambeth (near London) on Kennington Lane. He was the fourteenth of Catherine and William Loder Browne's fifteen children. According to biographer, Valerie Browne Lester, Phiz was in fact the illegitimate son of his putative eldest sister Kate and Captain Nicholas Hablot of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. There is some uncertainty regarding the exact date"
"was Hablot Knight Browne who became famous for his illustrations of Charles Dickens novels. In 1843 he married Martha Swete Cummins in Brixton and the couple lived there for several years. In 1847 he took his family to Australia to seek his fortune. He became quite wealthy and built a house in St Kilda, Melbourne. He became part of the social set which included the famous diarist Georgiana McCrae. She painted a portrait of him which is shown here He sold his house in Melbourne and returned to England in 1854. He lived in Badgworth Gloucestershire for some time and"
"difficult and badly paid job. Hablot Knight Browne was one of the few very talented artists to pursue illustrating full-time. Most artists, such as Marcus Stone and Luke Fildes, used illustrating as a stepping-stone to a career in painting. Other artists like George Cattermole and Daniel Maclise supplemented their income by providing illustrations. The popularity of illustrated fiction began to decline in the late 19th century, as illustrations lost their novelty and no longer guaranteed that a novel would sell well. Technological improvements in printing flooded the market with affordable novels with illustrations of high quality. Prestigious artists including John"
"Hubert-François Gravelot Hubert-François Bourguignon, commonly known as Gravelot (26 March 1699 – 20 April 1773), was a French engraver, a famous book illustrator, designer and drawing-master. Born in Paris, he emigrated to London in 1732, where he quickly became a central figure in the introduction of the Rococo style in British design, which was disseminated from London in this period, through the media of book illustrations and engraved designs as well as by the examples of luxury goods in the ""French taste"" brought down from London to provincial towns and country houses. Gravelot was a mediocre student, who did not"
"John Hargrave John Gordon Hargrave (6 June 1894 – 21 November 1982), (woodcraft name 'White Fox'), was a prominent youth leader in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, Head Man of the Kibbo Kift, described in his obituary as an 'author, cartoonist, inventor, lexicographer, artist and psychic healer'. He was a Utopian thinker, a believer in both science and magic, and a figure-head for the Social Credit movement in British politics. Born in Midhurst, Sussex, into an itinerant Quaker family, Hargrave was the son of painter Gordon Hargrave and his wife Babette Bing, of Jewish Hungarian descent. A bohemian childhood,"
"in 1936. In 1928, he worked as a photographer for the ""Houston Press"". When the oil industry magazine went under, the Hamlins returned to Perry, Iowa in 1930. Back in Perry, Hamlin began thinking about those dinosaurs and started drawing a comic strip titled ""The Mighty Oop"". However, he was not pleased with what he had created and instead of sending it to a syndicate, he destroyed it. A year later, he tried again, submitting ""Alley Oop"" to a small syndicate, Bonnet-Brown, which launched the strip as a daily, beginning December 5, 1932. A few months later, Bonnet-Brown collapsed, bringing"
"Hilary Knight (illustrator) Hilary Knight (born November 1, 1926) is an American writer and artist. He is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's ""Eloise"" (1955) and others in the ""Eloise"" series. Knight has illustrated for a wide variety of clients, creating artwork for magazines, children's fashion advertisements, greeting cards, record albums and posters for Broadway musicals, including ""Gypsy"", ""Irene"", ""Half A Sixpence"", ""Hallelujah Baby!"" and ""No, No Nanette"". One of two sons of artist-writers Clayton Knight and Katharine Sturges Dodge, Hilary Knight was"
"to claim an inheritance from her uncle Matthew Charles Howard-Gibbon, and became ill. She died in Lambeth and was buried with her father at Saint Nicholas Churchyard in Arundel. During Howard-Gibbon's time in Ontario, she created watercolor portraits and sketches of several friends and family members. In 1859 she sketched a children's alphabet book which she later gave to a friend, Martha Poussette. Many years later Poussette's family donated the book to the Toronto Children's Library. (The original is in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, catalogued as a book, ""25 leaves"", under 24 ""ART"" call numbers whose last"
"was successful on May 22, 2012. Mel Hunter Milford ""Mel"" Joseph Hunter (July 27, 1927 – February 20, 2004) was a 20th-century American illustrator. He enjoyed a successful career as a science fiction illustrator, producing illustrations for famous science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, as well as a technical and scientific illustrator for clients such as The Pentagon, Hayden Planetarium, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Mel Hunter's life began with a troubled childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was physically and psychologically abused by a humorless father. ""He never knew his mother because she"
"the Crypt"" #26 (""The Borrowed Body""). Howard Larsen Howard Larsen was an American comic book illustrator for EC Comics and other publishers during the 1940s and 1950s. Specializing in crime and Western stories, Larsen contributed to several comics publishers, including American (""Spy-Hunters""), Avon (""Romantic Love"", ""Slave Girl"", ""Wild Bill Hickok""), Charlton Comics (""Marvels of Science""), Et-Es-Go (""Suspense""), Fiction House (""Jungle Comics"", ""Planet Comics"", ""Wings Comics""), Novelty (""Blue Bolt""), St. John Publications (""The Texan"") and Victory (""X-Venture""). His stories for EC were in ""Crime Patrol"" #11 (""The Werewolf's Curse!""), ""Crime Patrol"" #12 (""The Hanged Man’s Revenge""), ""The Vault of Horror"" #21"
"Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet. He co-founded ""The Examiner"", a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles. He was the centre of the Hampstead-based group that included Hazlitt and Lamb, known as the 'Hunt circle', and he introduced Keats, Shelley, Browning and Tennyson to the public. His presence at Shelley's funeral on the beach near Viareggio was immortalised in the painting by Fournier, though he was not, in fact, standing by the pyre, as portrayed. Hunt was the original of Harold Skimpole in"
"give the ocelot away to a good home, but unfortunately Rufus died, possibly from a disease acquired from one of his many visitors or prospective owners. Clare Turlay Newberry Clare Turlay Newberry (April 10, 1903 – February 12, 1970) was an American author and illustrator of 17 published children's books, who achieved fame for her drawings of cats, the subject of all but three of her books. Four of her works were named Caldecott Honor Books. Born in Enterprise, Oregon, she began drawing cats at the age of two and sold her first illustrations, a series of paper dolls, to"
"René Follet René Follet (born 10 April 1931), sometimes known by the pen name Ref, is a Belgian illustrator, comics writer and artist. René Follet was born in Brussels in 1931. His first publication appeared when he was 14, illustrating a promotional issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Treasure Island"" for Aiglon, a chocolate factory. In 1949, he started working for the two main Franco-Belgian comics magazines of that time, ""Tintin"" and ""Spirou"". For both, he collaborated on the series of 4 page historical stories which functioned as a starting point for many young artists like Jean Graton and Hermann Huppen."
"Alex Akerbladh Alexander (Alex) Akerbladh was a Swedish-born comics artist who drew for the Amalgamated Press in the UK from the 1900s to the 1950s. Born in Sundsvall, Sweden on 25 April 1886, he studied architecture at Glasgow School of Art, and became an apprentice to Sir John James Burnet for seven years, before studying art at the St John's Wood Art School in London under Leonard Walker, and in Munich under Anton Binder in 1916. He painted interiors and figures in oils and watercolours. His earliest known comics work was ""Hounslow Heath the Highwayman"" for ""Illustrated Chips"" in 1909."
"Harry Eliott Harry Eliott, born Charles Edmond Hermet (Paris, 14 June 1882 - Villez-sous-Bailleul, 29 May 1959), was a French painter and illustrator. Eliott was the son of a lithographer. An Anglophile, he took up an English pseudonym at an early age and tried to pass for an Englishman. He was called up for the army in 1914, and married a young woman from Normandy in 1915, where he settled in 1917 after treatment for depression. The couple also lived in England for a while. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he made a living doing illustrations for ""Nos"
"Dave Hunt (artist) Dave Hunt (August 2, 1942 – March 5, 2017) was an American comic book artist and fine art painter. Most active during the ""Bronze Age"" of American comics, he did inking for both DC and Marvel comics and Disney's comics. He was also an accomplished hyperrealist painter. Beginning in 1972, he worked as an inker for Marvel Comics, assisting Mike Esposito and Frank Giacoia. He inked artists including John Byrne and Ross Andru, working on titles such as ""Spider-Man"", ""Captain America"" and the ""Fantastic Four"". In 1978 he began working for DC, where he worked with Superman"
"Pérez, Jim Mooney, Don Newton, and Keith Pollard. Hunt died on March 5, 2017, of complications from cancer. Dave Hunt (artist) Dave Hunt (August 2, 1942 – March 5, 2017) was an American comic book artist and fine art painter. Most active during the ""Bronze Age"" of American comics, he did inking for both DC and Marvel comics and Disney's comics. He was also an accomplished hyperrealist painter. Beginning in 1972, he worked as an inker for Marvel Comics, assisting Mike Esposito and Frank Giacoia. He inked artists including John Byrne and Ross Andru, working on titles such as ""Spider-Man"","
"by Franklin Booth. Books about him and his illustrations include ""Franklin Booth: American Illustrator"" (2006) by editor Manuel Auad and ""Franklin Booth: Painter with a Pen"" (2002) by John Fleskes. Franklin Booth Franklin Booth, (July 8, 1874 – August 25, 1948) was an American artist known for his detailed pen-and-ink illustrations. He had a unique illustration style based upon his early recreation of wood engraving illustrations with pen and ink. His skill as a draftsman and style made him a popular magazine illustrator in the early 20th-century. Creator of the Nicholson plate, he was one of the first modern ""ex"
"Hannes Bok Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard (July 2, 1914 – April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta Publishers, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous"
"Simms Taback Simms Taback (February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011) was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books. He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing ""Joseph Had a Little Overcoat"", and was a runner-up in 1998 for ""There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"". Taback graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and served in the United States Army. He was a designer for CBS Records and The New York Times. He was the founder and president of the Illustrators Guild (later the New"
"Herblock Herbert Lawrence Block, commonly known as Herblock (October13, 1909October7, 2001), was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. During the course of a career stretching into nine decades, he won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning (1942, 1954, 1979), shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1994), the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960, the Reuben Award in 1956, the Gold Key Award (the National Cartoonists Society Hall of Fame) in 1979, and numerous other"
"the novels were released at about the same time in the USA (by W. W. Norton) and the UK (by HarperCollins, the name of Collins after a merger). Novels prior to 1992 were published rapidly in the US for that new market. Following novels were released at the same time by the UK and US publishers. Collins asked Geoff Hunt in 1988 to do the cover art for the twelve books published by then, with ""The Letter of Marque"" being the first book to have Hunt's work on the first edition. He continued to paint the covers for future books;"
"Mel Hunter Milford ""Mel"" Joseph Hunter (July 27, 1927 – February 20, 2004) was a 20th-century American illustrator. He enjoyed a successful career as a science fiction illustrator, producing illustrations for famous science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, as well as a technical and scientific illustrator for clients such as The Pentagon, Hayden Planetarium, and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Mel Hunter's life began with a troubled childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was physically and psychologically abused by a humorless father. ""He never knew his mother because she was banished from the household by"
"Peter badge. Nick Sharratt's work has been exhibited in Britain, Italy, Japan and U.S. Nick Sharratt Nick Sharratt (born August 9, 1962) is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006. Sharratt has illustrated around 250 books, including over 50 books by award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson, among them ""The Lottie Project"", ""Little Darlings"" and ""The Story of Tracy Beaker"" which was the most borrowed library book in the UK for the first decade of this century. The books on which they have collaborated have sold more than"
"Nabot Törnros Johan Natanael Törnros, known as Nabot (2 June 1878, Stockholm - by 1914, Hjo?) was a Swedish painter, illustrator and cartoonist. He specialized in portraits and interiors. After 1900, he was a member of a short-lived progressive artists' group known as ""De Frie"", which was notable for its inclusion of a female artist, Harriet Sundström. His nickname is derived from the French word for dwarf. He studied art with Anders Zorn, Richard Bergh and Per Hasselberg at the (Artists' Association School) in Stockholm. From about 1898 he was a member of the , but left the organization sometime"
"Mark Knight Mark Knight (born c. 1960s) is an Australian cartoonist. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for the ""Herald Sun"", a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne. Knight was also the last editorial cartoonist for one of the ""Herald Sun""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s joint predecessor newspapers, the afternoon broadsheet ""The Herald"". Knight was born and raised in Sydney. He grew up in Lakemba, attended Wiley Park Primary School and then Narwee Boys' High School. He showed an early interest in drawing which was encouraged by his artistic father. Knight's first cartoons were of his family and their idiosyncrasies, drawn at family gatherings. When"
"periodical volumes and parts, ephemera such as cigarette cards, and pictures, including over 70 original drawings. H. M. Brock Henry Matthew Brock (11 July 1875 – 21 July 1960) was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in Cambridge in England, H. M. Brock was one of four sons of Edmund Brock (1841-1921), a specialist reader in oriental languages for the Cambridge University Press, and his wife Mary Ann Louise (1836-1901) (née Peagram). H. M. Brock was the younger brother of the better-known artist Charles Edmund Brock, with whom he shared a"
"at the Strauben-Muller Textile High School, New York. 1949, ""Relation of Man and Nature in Old Hawaii"", 10 by 29 ft., Fresco at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. 1952, ""Early Contacts of Hawaii with the Outer World"", 11 by 57 ft., Fresco at the Bishop Bank, Honolulu, Hawaii. Jean Charlot Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 – March 20, 1979) was a French and naturalized American painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business and was a Russian-born émigré, albeit one who supported"
"Ballantine Books, Pyramid Books and Ace Books, as well as Gold Medal, Avon, Permabook, and Pocket Books. He illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs' books, including the Tarzan series, Barsoom series, and Pellucidar series. Robert K. Abbett Robert Kennedy Abbett (January 5, 1926 – June 20, 2015) was an American artist and illustrator. Abbett was born in 1926 in Hammond, Indiana. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs), wilderness,"
"Milton Knight Milton Knight (born May 12, 1962) is an American cartoonist/animator, comic book artist and writer, painter, and storyboard/layout artist known for his Golden Age (1930s) cartooning style. At age two, Knight began to draw, paint and create comic books attempts and animation. In 1978 to 1979, he attended BOCES Nassau County Cultural Arts Center (Syosset, New York) and Hofstra University. From 1979 on, he illustrated for national magazines and newspapers: ""The Village Voice, Family Weekly, Nickelodeon Magazine, The Electric Company Magazine, National Lampoon, High Times, Heavy Metal,"" and others. He created theatre posters, music CD covers, greeting cards,"
"Crockett Johnson Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip ""Barnaby"" (1942–1952) and the ""Harold"" series of books beginning with ""Harold and the Purple Crayon"". From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Eighty of these are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History. Born in New York City, Johnson grew up in Corona, Queens, New York, attended PS 16 and Newtown High"
"under the ""Speedball"" brand: Speedball and Hunt pens have been widely used by a legion of comic strip and comic book artists to ink their pages. Hunt pens were the choice of Walt Simonson, Dale Keown, Bob McLeod, Kevin Nowlan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Joe Sinnott, Mark Morales and Andy Lanning (#102 model), George Pérez (#100), Mike DeCarlo (#103), Drew Geraci (#22) and Joe Rubinstein (#100, 103). Carl Barks' wife lettered his comics with a Speedball A-5 or B-6, although Barks himself was an Esterbrook enthusiastic. Speedball (art products) Speedball is an American company that manufactures art materials and other stationery items."
"Howard Post Howard ""Howie"" Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) was an American animator, cartoonist, and comic strip and comic book writer-artist. Post is known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip ""The Dropouts"" which had a 13-year run and for creating DC Comics' ""Anthro"". Born in New York City, Post grew up in the Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods of Brooklyn and then in The Bronx. In a 1999 interview, he recalled his start in drawing and his father's influence: As a teenager, Post attended the Hastings School of Animation, in New York City. When he was"